Sister Ingrid- Gentle Touch Midwifery

05/08/2025

It takes a village to support a breastfeeding mom.
🌼 Family: Help with cooking and chores so Mama can rest and feed
💬 Community: Share tips and encouragement on how you support breastfeeding moms — we all learn from each other
🏢 Employers: Follow the law! Give breastfeeding employees two 30-minute breaks to breastfeed or express while at work
Together, we make breastfeeding possible.

04/08/2025

04/08/2025

Such an honour and privilege ❤️
Join us on Saturday. Book your tickets today

01/08/2025

❤️1-7 August World Breastfeeding week ❤️
Supported by WHO, UNICEF and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners, World Breastfeeding Week is held in the first week of August every year.

Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival and yet currently, fewer than half of infants under 6 months old are exclusively breastfed.

In 2018, a World Health Assembly resolution endorsed World Breastfeeding Week as an important health promotion strategy. With a different theme each year, it aims to promote the enabling environments that help women to breastfeed – including support in the community and the workplace, with adequate protections in government policies and laws - as well as sharing information on breastfeeding benefits and strategies.

13/07/2025

Another study demonstrating how Breastmilk is different for every individual baby. Your baby gets milk that is exactly right with the right composition for your baby at that exact time.
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Although colostrum and mature milk are well studied, less is known about how colostrum composition varies across different birthweight categories in term infants.

This cross-sectional study (N = 252) compared colostrum collected on postpartum day 2 from individuals who delivered term infants classified as small (SGA), appropriate (AGA), or large (LGA) for gestational age.

Results showed:
🔹 Higher protein content in colostrum from the SGA and LGA groups compared to AGA
🔹 Higher carbohydrate content in the LGA group compared to AGA
🔹 No differences in fat or energy content

Multivariate analysis confirmed that SGA and LGA status were independently associated with higher protein levels, and LGA status was also associated with higher carbohydrate levels.

These findings suggest that macronutrient composition in colostrum may adapt based on infant size at birth, even when gestational age is similar. Further research is needed to understand the implications for early infant feeding and metabolism.

Citation: Arayici S, Alyamac Dizdar E, Kadioglu Simsek G, Sari FN. Relationship Between Birthweight for Gestational Age and Colostrum Macronutrient Composition: A Comparative Analysis in Small, Appropriate, and Large for Gestational Age Infants. Journal of Human Lactation. 2025;41(3):371-378. doi:10.1177/08903344251342561

11/07/2025

We are truely miraculously made. The wonder of breastfeeding, on how it works, on how it changes to your specific baby is just absolutely miraculous!! 💕

IIsn’t it amazing? Colostrum (the first milk) tailors its composition to each newborn's unique needs. This 2025 exploratory cross-sectional study found that the level of protein, carbs & fat in colostrum vary depending on whether a baby is born small for gestational age (SGA), appropriate for gestational age, or large for gestational age (LGA). Learn about it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/08903344251342561

04/07/2025

AJOG Expert Review in Labor: Water birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and neonatal outcomes https://ow.ly/nr7O50R9Nzi

26/05/2025

More proof that extended breastfeeding has many benefits ❤️

21/05/2025

In all the years of doing postnatal follow-up home visits, I have visited many homes in towns, on farms, on estates, had some traffic jams with elephants in the road....
but this today was a first for me!
I had to walk over this moving, bouncing hanging bridge to be picked up on the other end to go meet this new baby.
Priceless!!!
Love living in Africa and doing the work I do ❤️
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27/04/2025

26/04/2025

It is so important to really talk about inductions and the possible effect there of. You should be able to have all the facts to be able to make the right decision for you and your baby.
I believe your first birth is super important as this sets the stage for your next births.
Remember you can ask questions and have discussions. It's your pregnancy, birth and baby.

24/04/2025

Can breastfeeding help prevent early puberty? Yes, according to this 2025 meta-analysis. Its authors suggest lactation’s anti-obesity effects may be one reason why. Check it out here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40081314/